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A couple of friends have been talking about that temporal BD4D site done by Mutado and how similar it was to my site. Well, the colours are for sure similar, and at the beginning I had the body of the blog posts in that blue too, but then Zomb told me that in white would be more readable. So now it doesn't look THAT similar.

Anyway, doesn't really matter, and actually, to be fair, I also ripped BD4D quite a bit when I did the layout design for xplsv.tv back then O:

Having said all that, We'll be there this afternoon, so, if you know how we look like, say hello hello!.

No wonder how come the the guy is now doing scores for movies :)

http://mfx.scene.org/jaripitkanen/

Happy listening.

Last Saturday I was reinstalling the OS on my MacBook Pro, and what was my surprise when after reinstalling Tiger, and ready to install Windows using Bootcamp, I found out that Bootcamp wasn't available as beta/free download anymore. Right.

One solution was to use a virtualisation software such as Parallels, but the license was quite expensive (if you compare it to Leopard's Family Pack). So after a bit of thinking I went to the Apple Store and bough a Family Pack of Leopard as we have a couple of macs at home. Went back home, and installed Leopard. I wonder why does it take THAT LONG to install the OS. Anyway, I did the usual bootcamp thing after installing Leopard (without even looking at any of the stupid new features), and what was, again, my surprise that it didn't work. The bootcamp assistant lets you re-partition the space as usual, but this time doesn't warn you that if you put more than 32GB for Windows then you will need to format it as NTFS as Windows can't handle >32GB FAT32 partition, and at the same time MacOS can't read NTFS. Anyways, it lets you partition the HD to 50 and then it does a FAT32 partition by default, which, at the end, doesn't work.

While installing Windows at some point it says Disk Error with FAT32, if you try formating the partition to NTFS it says that the file HAL.DLL is missing or something. And Seemed that I wasn't the only one having that issue anyway.

What an interesting move Apple did here, gave Bootcamp for free for a while as a beta, then when you depend of it, expires, and they make you buy the new OS with that feature broken. Enjoy my money Apple.

Conclusion: Install Windows XP only, get rid of MacOS.

So, as I don't care much about MacOS, I decided that the best would be to reformat everything in a Windows readable formatting and installing Window XP. For doing this you need to:

Important: You'll delete ALL DATA of your HD, so you better do a backup before doing any of this.

1. Restart the machine from Tiger/Leopard install DVD
2. Go directly to Tools/Disk Utility
3. Select 1 partition and chose "Free Space" as format type
4. Click on Options... and select Master Boot record
5. Close the window and click Apply/Partition
6. Exit from the installer and reboot the computer with a Windows installer CD/DVD (pressing the Alt key)
7. After installing the OS, you'll need a Leopard CD for installing the hardware drivers.
8. Enjoy.

I know, I know, mac fans... I'm using an Apple branded PC without MacOS on it. I wanted to have it installed for testing the mac version of flash browser plugin, but Apple didn't let me to, so blame Apple.

The good thing here is that, if you don't need MacOS much, you can avoid buying Leopard, tho you'll need someone to let you the CD so you can install the drivers for the hardware.

I would asume that you should even be able to install Linux in that way, but I think you will have to wait a bit as the actual version (i'm talking about Ubuntu here) doesn't have the drivers fully ready.

This is what I call a nice desktop environment :)

I still depend on Flash CS3 for some vector stuff so I needed to have WindowsXP with Flash CS3 running properly. After trying some virtualisation programs (qemu, vmware), some guys recommended VirtualBox, and... oh boy, it does really run fast!

Here it's a little video of me playing around with my new desktop environment, (you may need VLC):



I wonder if you can record your desktop at 1920x1200 with Windows or MacOS :P

UPDATE:
At start, I was amazed how fast WindowsXP was booting up. But after installing JRE, DirectX and everything seemed to make it quite slower. Here you have another video to see WindowsXP booting up fastest than ever :D



PS: If you're wondering about what's my wallpaper... here you have the answer

November 11th, here you have random American. I dedicate this post to you :D

WTF you may say?! Well, just think about a random american being so american that can't handle date formats in non-american ways + being this month November (11) + paranoia + having a 9/11 image some posts down this one, and this is what you get on your mail:

"Ok asshole!

What every post has to be on the 11th on a given month? You screwball. I'm reporting you to motherland security! Nyuck, Nyuck, Nyuck."

Now that everyone is talking about 3D and flash, for some reason I'm getting a lot of emails about people interested in my little photo gallery. Seems like people want the sources or just the .swf but for their stuff. Well, when I did that version of Phodoob, the code was indeed better, but then AS3 poped out, and since then I've always wanted to move it to AS3... I believe I can make it run much more faster with much more pictures on it.

My work is very based on motivation periods. It's hard for me to follow a list of things to do, but if I get inspired with something I just crack on it and release it.

So, apart from all the people asking me to do screensavers with my effects, I'm at the moment 100% motivated on cracking a new version of phodoob with AS3 and a few surprises. And with the sources available this time :)

Thanks for the people that shown their interest, it's all because you ;) Now, stay tuned (Give me 1 week or so).

Just in time for flash on the beach, Jalava has just released the demoengine that he has been using for the latest Evoflash demos.

Thanks a lot for sharing this Jalava!!! :)
Now... it's time to learn some tricks. But while Tortoise does the checkout, what about watching the last demo done with this demoengine?

ADHDTV by evoflash

Armand Van Helden-I Want Your Soul (Fake Blood Remix)
Sigur Ros - Heima (New album)
La casa azul - La revolucion sexual (New album)

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